If you’ve got a kindly relative that always buys a Singletrack subscription for you, now is the time to check in and make sure they still like you. If they don’t pick up the phone, then you should get on the case and have a good rant about them on social media. I AM YOUR FAVOURITE SECOND COUSIN should do the trick. Or, more constructively, just hop on over here and buy your own Singletrack membership. It’s not just a magazine: it’s a whole world of improved website access, member discounts, and mountain biking inspiration.
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Countdown to membership cut off for the next print issue of Singletrack World Magazine
Signed up? Good. Now, let’s get you all excited for what’s going to come through your letterbox. Good things come to those who wait, waiting is more fun with a bit of looking forward to what’s to come.
UK Adventure: Natural Shrewdness
It was meant to be a farewell ride to Scotland. And, with multiple days of rain, thigh-deep bog and midges, it was pretty on target for Adam Boggon’s last big ride there.
Scottish Stag-Do
Climbing a Munro is hard enough without a valley full of belligerent stags blocking the way. Nevertheless, Pete Scullion shows Amanda some Scottish grandeur.
Jason Miles, Bored Bored Bored
Have you done anything fun recently? If you have, then make sure you tell Jason what you did and how you did it. He’ll be round when it’s safe to do so.
Back to the Future
Would your younger self scoff at the lack of hardship in your cycling life? Alf Anderson retraces an Alpine trip he took, only now with the benefit of experience, e-bikes and a lot more discretionary budget.
Classic Ride – Kirk Yetholm
What better place for the Scots to look down on the English than on this hard-fought border ride on the edge of the Cheviots?
Ladakhi Freeride
Katie Lozancich travelled to remote Ladakh in India with world-class gravity riders Hannah Bergemann and Veronique Sandler as they shot a segment for TGR’s new film ‘Accomplice’.
Kit Essentials, Lights
Here are the night-riding lights that have been keeping the Singletrack team riding through the winter nights.
Bike Test – Fast Trail Bikes
Not everyone is ‘enduro’ – some riders just love going quickly, whether uphill or downtrail. We test three 120mm fast and light trail bikes from Intense, Orbea and Specialized reviewed at speed.
Black Magic: Repairing Broken Carbon
Can your broken carbon frame be fixed? Or is it junk? Barney heads to the Peak District to see how Rob Hayles, World Champion and carbon repair expert, does things.
Editors’ Choice
Here are the bikes, places and gear that have rocked our world this year. Good enough that they deserve a Singletrack Editors’ Choice Award.
Catch My Drift, Thrutch
Once again, Barney Marsh translates unintelligible mountain biking jargon using just his biting wit, some very long words and windmilling hand gestures.
Last Word: Mad Hannah’s Tea Party
Hannah ponders whether riding a bike in the hand now is better than riding two into a bush later. Or something like that…
The Singletrack Calendar 2021
This issue comes with the Singletrack Calendar for 2021 – hopefully you’ll be able to fill it with fun activities for the year ahead.
The Cover: Issue 134
What’s going on here then? This issue’s cover by James Vincent bears closer inspection. Can you figure it out?
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Looks like a corker. I can’t believe it’s nearly December, mind.
@brakestoomuch It’s not nearly December, is it? lalalalalala >ignores world< lalalalala
@brakestoomuch Several of my colleagues are adamant that we are in fact stuck in the ‘endless March’ making today March 312th or something like that….
…so definitely not nearly December…
@bjhedley Endless March? So I’ll stop getting older? Where do I sign?
Cover photo is inverted / upside down, possibly Lonsdale Fell, Keswick? @(-(
“If you’ve got a kindly relative that always buys a Singletrack subscription for you, now is the time to check in and make sure they still like you.”
This is literally me, though as the beneficiary. My relative doesn’t use the internet AT ALL, so god knows how she renews my subscription each year. Knowing her it probably will involve a series of handwritten letters… “My Good Sir…” etc. She is super kind though!
Is it your grandma?
If so she does write us nice letters 🙂
Ha! Properly LoL’d at that, I knew somebody would recognise who I was talking about. She is an elderly Aunt on my wife’s side. Everything is done via written correspondence. She would give Alan Bennet’s ‘Lady of Letters’ a run for her money.
I think she used to pay by postal order a few years back. Cheque seems to be the modern option these days and I think she was the last reason we had to pop to the bank in person. We can scan in cheques now :-).
Amazing!
Why doesn’t it say singletrack in the sky?!?